Broadband tuning of a continuous-wave, doubly resonant, lithium triborate optical parametric oscillator from 791 to 1620 nm

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 27, 1998, Pages 6459-6462

  Tsunekane, Masaki ^a   Kimura, Shinji ^b   Kimura, Mikio ^b   Taguchi, Noboru ^a   Inaba, Humio ^c  

^a Biophotonics Info Laboratories   (Japan)

^b Showa Optronics Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; CRYSTALS; INTERFEROMETERS; MIRRORS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

LITHIUM TRIBORATE CRYSTAL; OPTICAL SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SCANNING MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0032552295     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.006459     Document Type: Article

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